
RADOSŁAW NOWAKOWSKI
digital harpsichord, bzyk łysogórski
recorded in April and May 2025 at home on Tascam
DR-07X
imagined, performed, produced, designed, written,
printed, bound by R.N.
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.wav files)
According to the title A
slightly symmetric music is not symmetric as a whole. The individual
pieces are not symmetric, either. Neither each one
within itself, nor one to another. Sometimes they try
to be so, but they succeed
rarely. Whereas the applied scales are symmetrical, however visually, as if
geometrically – their symmetry is based on the
distances between the keys in the keyboard, not on the
intervals.
Bzyk łysogórski is kind of clavichord. It has two
strings and symmetric keyboard, but no soundbox: the
highest sounds are in the centre and then the pitch goes
down in both left and right direction. There are thirty
four keys, seventeen keys on each side; this number is
accidental, there was no room for more keys, the
intervals between the sounds are accidental, too. This
instrument, a prototype which exists only in one copy,
has been built by a good friend of mine, a neighbour
from beyond the hill, Tomasz Rozborski.
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